. . . an aria from Halévy's "La Tempesta" has been added as a final showpiece. This indeed is dazzling, and not just because Bartoli gamely sings the first half of it while sticking her head through a hole in a cardboard cutout of a bride. She sings an impossible passage of coloratura. She then repeats it, pianissimo, flawlessly . . .

The positives one might expect by now from all her performances are well in place: the perfectly even, extended range; the extraordinarily agile coloratura; the long-breathed line; the ability to inflect vocal color and dynamics to great effect; a scrupulous attention to the meaning of the words and music she sings.